Tuesday, September 3, 2013

What! Spaghetti Sandwiches

Hello Family!!!

Last Monday we got to go to the temple. It was really fun. I wish I
would have gone through in Korean, but the speaking would be too
hard. English is good too. Then it was Elder Franchina's 300th day on
his mission so we celebrated by going to an American style buffet. The
we went to the huge market and bought some ties, they are super cheap
here and sparkly. Koreans love em. Then the korean that lives in our
house bought a golf driver to learn how to play golf. He love the sound
it makes as it swooshes against the grass. He goes outside and swins for
excersize time, so funny! This koreans name is Elder Jang. He is our DL
and we joke around with him saying he is so hansome and humble because,
he is super prideful but he is the funniest person I have ever met. He
has been obsessed with learning how to golf and sing I believe I can
fly. In his broken english it is so funny!!!

We went to go eat dinner with the stake president and while we were
going there Franchina was prosylyting on the bus like always, and this
guy offered to show us to the apatment complex. The whole way there he
walked incredibly close to him and tried to hold his hand. We didnt do
anything because that is Korean culture, but this guy really liked my
companion. Then at the apartment he told us he was a makeup artist and
he loved Elder Franchina. Short story short we are never calling him
again. It was so funny!! The sisters were dying laughing when they found
out.

The next day we went to go visit a recent convert and teach him the
doctrine of Christ. I went into the lesson not caring because he has a
minor disable and never listens to us he is always shucking corn or
peeling garlic. I didnt even know if he knew our names let alone the
gospel, but that day he listened and afterwards we asked him to pray and
he did. He blessed me and Franchina by name, blessed our familys that
we can work hard. I was stunned. After that prayer I just felt so much
love for him!!! I really know that he is a child of God. Then
afterwards we ate at good old McDonalds. We all ordered a McDouble,
Chicken, and Bolgogi Burger coming to a total of 5 bucks each. We took
the mcdoble opened it in half and put on the whole chicken. Then ate it.
The Bolgogi burger is super good as well, but only korea has it.

With Sam this week we made a smoking goal. he will be clean in two
weeks and baptized in three hopefully. Thanks for all the gum because i
cant chew it in public I gaveit all to him. He was so excited and it has
really been helping him. He says American gum is alot better than
Korean gum. Later that day we visited a member resteraunt and ate there.
Sister Goodwin, a sister in 동대문 Decided that there were too many noodle
in her bowl and she was so full. so she held up a bunch of noodles and
jokingly said that someone needed to ring them out. Franchina didnt even
hesitate and rung them out. We exploded with laughter. She then
procceded to dump noodle in her bag when she wasnt looking. so funny.

Fast Sundays are my favorite here because that is when the success
happens. Investigators came to church, people want to meet and we find
really good contacts. We met some many foriegners yesterday. From Kenya,
Uganda, Chile, Brazil, Honduras, Pillipenes, Dominican Republic, the
UK, Americans and of course lots of koreans. We are meeting with the
Kenyan, Uganda man and guy from Chile soon. We found so many potential
investigators and were wiped clean of Book of Mormons, all 6 we had on
us. It was a great day!!!

Kind of a scary story. Our Carbon Monoxide alarm went off and our
alarm was on the celing and Monoxide sinks so there was alot of it in
there, so we called President aired out our house and went to the church
and played scum. At about 11 we went back in. We called President again
and he said it was okay. I honestly didnt know if I was going to wake
up or not. So I did my repentence for the day and was peaceful going to
sleep! but im fine and it was a good experience. We all cheered at 6:30
when we all woke up!

Now a better story. I was remembering the times when I was a little
kid and you would always relate the gospel back to everything. I hated
it. but We were having Companionship inventory one day and we were
talking about that. It was super spiritual, then we went and taught the
gospel part of English class. We abandaned our whole lesson plan and
decided just to talk. it was super powerful, and now we are meeting with
one person and the sisters are meeting with another. I now know that
this gospel literally is EVERYTHING! Im so glad im out here!! Thanks for
everything!!!

LOVE YA!!

Elder Miles Diede

ps Remember how you said not to make the spaghetti sandwiches on our missions.